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simirving
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February 1, 2022

Can I share components across two Sites?

  • February 1, 2022
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Hello

I'm pretty new to AEM, so this question may have been asked before...but here goes.
My employer already uses an AEM Instance for a website that's already live, but it only services a particular customer type (Website 1). As part of their journey to improve customer experience, they want to use AEM to service a different customer type (Website 2). They've asked if it's possible to share already existing components across both Website 1 and 2 and to do this, will it require involvement of an AEM Developer. Or is this simply down to the permissions given to components when they're first created? I have researched this, and from what I've read it is only an AEM Developer than can enable the sharing of components across more than one website, but I can't say I've found a definitive answer to my questions. Thanks in advance.

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Anish-Sinha
Adobe Employee
Anish-SinhaAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
February 1, 2022

Hi @simirving ,
If both the websites are hosted on same server, no new development is needed. You just need to enable the component for the templates that is being used in the new website. For editable template: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJrBr0a-jpI

For static templates, which is very old, you have to go to design more and from there you can add the component. No new development is needed. Only configuration would suffice.

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    simirvingAuthor
    Level 2
    February 1, 2022

    Hello @anish-sinha Amazing! Thanks for your prompt reply. So when it comes to enabling the components, is this Dev only, or is dependent on how my employer has set up permissions? I will take a look at the YouTube link you've shared. Thank you.

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      simirvingAuthor
      Level 2
      February 1, 2022

      Usually this is done by content authors/ business users on prod. But on dev servers dev team could do. On prod,  dev wont have much access. But to be specific this is not development task


      @anish-sinha thanks again for helping me with this. The video you shared has been helpful, but after following the steps within it, I got as far as 2min 39sec. Selecting additional components to add to a page did not work for me. Might this be down to permissions set by an Admin or similar? Thanks

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